Friday, May 12, 2006

American held hostage, Day 348

Not only is Katie Holmes rarely allowed out (and only with a Scientologist shadowing her), but the actresses' parents weren't cleared to see their new granddaughter until nearly three weeks after her birth.

The Holmeses were specifically not invited until Tom was back home in Los Angeles after his worldwide promotional tour and could monitor the baby’s first visit with her maternal grandparents.

"They are heartbroken," says the source who filled me in on this, and this person knows what they’re talking about.

But no one who’s interviewed Cruise for "M: I3" has dared asked these questions.

Instead, they’ve let Cruise refer to Katie as "Kate" and do all the talking for her. The Holmeses are scared to speak out, say friends, for fear that they will be cut off even more from Katie and Suri.

"Katie is a young girl's name," Cruise told US Weekly. "Her name is Kate now; she's a childbearing woman." (Why not just change her name to "childbearing woman" then?)

Meanwhile, "MI:3" continues to tank. The movie took in just $2,783,719 on Wednesday, down 13 percent from Tuesday’s $3,204,660, according to boxofficemojo.com.